mawa31 replied to Wilson, Phil
19-Nov-09 04:37 PM

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Yep, Phil, you guessed it - it worked so I guess it solved the problem
was their approach. They could not see the forest through the trees or
whatever the saying is.
The reason their is self repair is that we require Admin to install
but Power User (on XP now) can run the app. When the non-installing
user initiates the app, there are user keys that get written for that
user.
I was thinking if they went the HKU route, they probably should have
just went HKLM, but I worry about permissions all the time so I do not
know if that would have been a good solution either.
We're currently in the process of reverting our install back to pre-
HKU changes, but I think this issue (getting around the self repair)
is going to raise its head again at some point if this top shelf
customer wants to purchase. Aside from possibly silencing the self
repair - not sidestep, just make the dialogs not display (if possible
at all) - I would guess that writing to HKLM instead would be a better
approach. ???
Any further thoughts, pointers, etc on this is greatly appreciated.
Hey Phil, have you written any other Windows Installer books lately.
I have The Definitive Guide to Windows Installer (2004) but was
wondering if there was something more recent to maybe cover the new
stuff in the engine.
Thanks again!